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1. 7 days ago on Luann

   Thank you for posting that link!

   I’ve been giving blood for upward of fifty years (here in the US)—aiming for maximum allowable frequency for the last thirty or so years. I have to say that I’ve never been offered payment, as such. The last maybe five or ten years, the Red Cross has started offering $5-$10 gift cards on occasion, tee shirts or socks on other occasions.

   (The tees have ads for blood donation on them, and I think the socks too. I admit that I frustrate their desire for publicity; I wear the tees as undershirts in weather for which I wear undershirts—now, for example. The socks have gone to family members with smaller feet. I admit to gratefully accepting and using the gift cards.)

2. 7 days ago on Luann

   Looking at her as drawn, I’d say she could easily be that slender. (My wife was under the limit when we got married, and for years after. (She turned out to have an overactive thyroid gland.))

3. 7 days ago on Luann

   Hmm. I think that if you had asked them to take you off their list, that would have been the end of it. At least, I give regularly, and after I said to stop bugging me they did.

   Now if I could only get “good causes” I gave once or twice to twenty years ago, and various businesses, to stop it! For the past two months and more, some of them have been blitzing me three and four times a day! (“Black Friday will be starting early, two weeks from now.” “Black Friday sales continuing.” (The same for Cyber Monday.) “Only 8 days for your contribution to be doubled!” (Counting down the days and finally the hours thereafter.) Like a bunch of sharks where there’s blood in the water.

   (For the most part, I decided I just plain would not give even to causes we support that engage in such tactics, this time around. There were some that had kind of fallen off our radar for a few months, for which we made exceptions—a very few. And there are plenty of one-off, private needs we’re aware of.)

4. 11 days ago on Luann

   Hmph. Totally minor point, but I’ve never before seen (in real life or comic strip) a shirt with a single pocket that’s on the right-hand side.

5. 11 days ago on Luann

   The Red Cross doesn’t normally allow donations more often than every eight weeks these days.

   And yes, that’s rare, but out of a large population it adds up to a lot of individuals. (Thank you for posting this, BTW. I’m unfamiliar with it.)

6. 11 days ago on Luann

   (“A pint’s a pound the world around”.)

7. 11 days ago on Luann

   yeah, every 27 years or so they ought to do a blood drive PSA

   Some people would complain that it’s too often. (I’m a little surprised that Greg didn’t do it in the immediate aftermath of 9/11/2001. That’s the last time I was at a blood drive where the wait time was hours—but people waited that long.) I don’t understand why so few are giving these days (where I am, anyway); and for some reason most of those I see aren’t young.

8. 19 days ago on Luann

   Heh. When I was in college or maybe even late high school (late 60s/early 70s) . . . well, we had a dog about the size of Puddles. We were going to have dessert later after a big dinner, so we were all in the living room talking, with the cake on a platter on the kitchen table. (No chairs involved here, either.) Suddenly there was a crash from the direction of the kitchen. The dog (who shall remain nameless here) had managed to jump high enough to grab the edge of the platter with her mouth and pull the whole thing onto the floor.

   (She also once burned her mouth pulling a steak off the grill in the back yard. That wasn’t as high up, though. Glad she didn’t pull the whole grill over.)

9. 19 days ago on Luann

   Yep. I have my own example, but I think I’ll post it at the bottom, not bury it here.

10. 20 days ago on Luann

    To put it very mildly, yes.